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Happy 6th Birthday, Rio!

May 24, 2010

Rio is 6 years old today. 6! 6 is much too big. I cannot possibly be the mother of a six-year-old. Yet there it is. I can still feel, when I close my eyes, the exquisite touch of her soft, squirmy, wet self being laid in my arms for the first time. I can hear [...]

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Birthday Rum Spiced with 21 Hot Peppers

November 17, 2009

Bridget’s dad had a birthday party over the weekend. I helped him celebrate by drinking rum spiced with 21 hot peppers. That was even better than I thought it would be, and I thought it was worth walking across town for. Dead simple recipe: Grow little hot red peppers all summer. Watch them ripen. Harvest [...]

Tagged as: baby, birthday, bridget, witchcraft

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Happy Equinox, closing out the Gratitude Project

September 20, 2009

Today’s the Equinox, and the last official day of the Gratitude Project. As always after six weeks of honoring my blessings, I’m infused with gratitude for all the small wonders in my daily life. I don’t want to stop paying attention to them, or writing about them. But I’ll drop the daily practice of it, [...]

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Gratitude Project

August 2, 2009

Every year between Lammas (August 1) and the Fall Equinox (September 22), I celebrate the Gratitude Project with an ever-changing group of friends and family. It’s simple: I aim to post, or write in my private journal, something I’m grateful for every day. Want to play along? Comment here and let me know where you’ll [...]

Tagged as: family, gratitude project, life stuff, witchcraft

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Those pesky house fairies

July 25, 2009

*crash* I come into the room to find Rio sitting on the floor, crying and clutching her bum. It’s pretty clear that she just fell off a piano stool and hit her tailbone, but she’s too upset to talk about it yet, so I just hold her. Eventually, Serena toddles in to see what’s going [...]

Tagged as: fairies, rio, serena, witchcraft

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Summer Solstice Festival at the Growing Center

June 19, 2009

Tomorrow, I will be leading a Summer Solstice Festival at the Somerville Growing Center, starting at 4 p.m. We’ll be doing sun-painting again if the weather is good. Here’s the skinny on the overall project: A series of family-friendly festivals celebrating the turning of the wheel of the year. Through song, story, art and play [...]

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